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Beyond Boundaries Institute

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$112k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$121kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kYouth Development$45kHealth$31kRecreation & Sports$29kEnvironment$14kArts & Culture$10kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
$23,880
Median grant
3
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$35,000
BRIDGERCARE$25,000
BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION$23,880
MONTANA WILDERNESS SCHOOL$20,000
CACTUS CONSERVATION INSTITUTE INC$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
NY
AZ
NM
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 6 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$215k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+54%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $85k · revenue +5%
  • BS
    BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +87%
  • B
    BRIDGERCARE
    2× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • FE
    FORT ELLIS FIRE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -79%
  • IF
    ISHA Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue +91%
  • SC
    SIA COMANCHE NATION ETHNO
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
3
Headwaters Trail System

To build and maintain trails in the Missouri River Headwaters Area.

Environment
4
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
5
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment
6
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
7
Braided River

We inspire people to protect wild places through images and stories that change perspectives, western north america's public lands are under threat. using the power of beautiful images, we publish photography books and create multimedia…

Environment
8
Singing Waters Montana

To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.

Recreation & Sports
9
Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment
10
Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation

The bob marshall wilderness foundation bmwf has been serving the wilderness recreation community for over twenty 20 years by organizing and leading projects that clear trails and preserve the wilderness ecosystem by restoring damaged areas…

Recreation & Sports
11
Gallatin River Task Force

To protect, restore, and inspire stewardshp of the Gallatin River

Environment
12
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgercare; the most unlike its peers is Isha Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITYBozeman Field School Inc: $20,000 · EducationBozeman Field School IncISHA Foundation: $15,500 · EducationISHA FoundationBRIDGERCARE: $26,000 · OtherBRIDGERCARESIA COMANCHE NATION ETHNO: $10,000 · OtherSIA COMANCHE NATIO…CACTUS CONSERVATION INSTITUTE INC: $8,000 · OtherCACTUS CONSERVATIO…HOPE MOUNTAIN INC: $5,000 · OtherHOPE MOUNTAIN INCIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…MONTANA WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $45,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA WILDERNESS…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS IN…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentFORT ELLIS FIRE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFORT ELLIS FIRE F…BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION: $28,880 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGER SK…TINWORKS ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$120,500Other$53,000Environment$51,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Recreation & Sports$28,880Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $45,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION: $28,880 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGERCARE: $26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBozeman Field School Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTINWORKS ART: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morton H Meyerson Fam…Bozeman Deaconess Hea…Yellowstone Club Comm…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morton H Meyerson Family FoundationTX15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Beyond Boundaries Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beyond Boundaries Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Beyond Boundaries Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Beyond Boundaries Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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